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           | DescriptionPresident Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany, 2 April 1917.jpg | 
           
             President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany, causing the United States to enter World War I. 
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           2 April 1917 | 
          
          
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